Rona Robinson

Rona Robinson

Rona Robinson was a British suffragette and in 1905 the first woman in the United Kingdom to gain a first-class degree in chemistry. cite web|url=http://www.spink.com/news/newsletters/2005/200506medal_news.asp |title=Spink Medal Newsletter |accessdate=2008-03-16 ] It was awarded to her by Owen's College, Victoria University of Manchester.

After university, Robinson became a teacher at Altrincham Pupil-Teacher Centre, near Manchester where Dora Marsden (later editor of The Freewoman) was assistant-mistress and later headmistress. Whilst at Altrincham, Robinson and Marsden developed a mutual interest in women's suffrage. Both left the school after a dispute over wages to concentrate their attention on Women's Social and Political Union activities, becoming paid regional representatives. Both were imprisoned for a month after taking part in a deputation to see the Prime Minister, Herbert Asquith in 1909.

Robinson was arrested for a second time with Marsden and fellow suffragette Mary Gawthorpe for disrupting the opening of laboratories by the Chancellor of Manchester University with questions about recent force-feeding tactics employed by the prison wardens holding hunger-striking suffragettes. The rough handling employed by the police reputedly moved the Chancellor to pressure the University into not pressing charges.

Robinson was later a Gilchrist postgraduate scholar in Home Science and Economics at King’s College for Women.

ee also

*List of suffragists and suffragettes

References

*"Dora Marsden: A Brave and Beautiful Spirit" Les Garner pp.18-33; 36 & 47


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